Childminder's husband doing school run - dodgy or am I paranoid?

Why is this dodgy?! He has been crb checked, a legal requirement for any adult living with a childminder, so technically he could work with children too if he did the course.

Given that his role has nothing to do with teaching, nurturing or disciplining the children and he is essentially a taxi/bus driver, I'd have thought that a clean driving licence, a sense of responsibility and a cheery persona would be enough to satisfy parents that he is capable of getting children to school and back.

I don't see why this is an issue, unless you are working on the assumption that all men are paedophiles.

I used to use a cm at weekends, and her husband was lovely and he was there when I first met them, as it was the weekend he was around. His job was a paramedic and he had been crb checked. I was more than happy for him to be around my children and if school runs had have been part of it I wouldn't have minded him doing it. I would prefer him to do school run, than him stay with kids while she did it. You should meet him though and see how you feel. But as long as he is crb checked I wouldn't think it's a bad thing :)

I think you have to meet him first. There is also the important issue of communication with school - you are going to be relying on the CM to be able to tell you if he has had a good day, if any issues are cropping up.

I was an infant teacher for many years and this whole element is a very important part of schooling.

Having my DH do the school run is a godsend in sleet and snow rather than getting little ones out.

If I had a pre-school age child I'd much rather they got to stay at home than go on every school run tbh.

If he's registered as her assistant/co-minder then I don't see the problem. Why would it be "dodgy"? I think childminders can work with up to two or three other people.

He has to be a registered assistant to do this. If he is, I really don't get the problem?
flatmum why is this a reflag? My dh is my assistant and we do one school run each. I'm assuming he's not suddenly becoming a child molester on the school run

I think it would depend on whether her husband was properly crb checked and insured to be doing this.

That would be a red flag for me I think. My cm husband occasionally helps out but generally you are paying of the relationship with the actual cm and I think te school run is a big part of this. I do know of one cm couple where they are both registered cms but this caused problems as they just crammed in too many kids.

I would rather he did the school run tbh - saves taking little kids out when they don't need to go and he can focus/chat to the school age ones.

A year 1 child at our school ran across the road in front of me as she had seen her friend. The cm was busy getting a stroppy tired toddler into a buggy.

Gave us all a huge fright - I stopped in time so didn't hit her but....

I guess that if they are sharing the childminder job, I'd want to meet both of them and talk about it before I decided whether or not to employ them. I'd want to be shown his CRB along with all her other papers and policies.

Are you worried specifically about abuse? If so, is there a reason why you are worried about it?

How old are the children? Slightly diff regs apply to over 8s iirc